CNN asks San Diego station for local view on border; backs off after learning station is pro-wall

It’s hard reporting the news — especially when the “news” you’re reporting needs to fit in with a certain preconceived narrative. An example of this phenomenon occurred on Tuesday when CBS News felt impelled to pull a “fact check” of one of President Trump’s claims during his Oval Office address.

The problem was not that the fact check was wrong. It was that truth according to CBS supported Trump’s point of view. During the address he had said that “women and children are the biggest victims by far of our broken system,” emphasizing the point by noting that one in three women is sexually assaulted while traveling through Mexico. CBS’s “gotcha” corrected the record, noting that the number of women raped is actually between 60% and 80% — which is at least twice as high as the president had intimated.